State Council outlines key jobs in China's geologic work

An executive meeting of the State Council, or the Chinese cabinet, outlined in Beijing Wednesday the key jobs China should accomplish in its geologic work, urging further exploration of its resource potentials which may help better the country's resource supply capabilities.

Prospecting of energy mines, especially that of oil and gas basins, should be emphasized and the census work for major Chinese coal mine bases accelerated in order to increase the amount of mining storage, according to the meeting, presided over by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.

Survey and mine finding work must be intensified inside and around non-energy mines, oil and gas fields and cities suffering resource exhaustion problems so as to shape a new batch of resource bases, it said.

At the same time, the country should lift the coverage of basis geologic survey, step up the monitoring of geologic disasters and environments and speed up the modernization process of geologic undertakings, it said.

The meeting also promised the further reform of the country's geologic systems and the adoption of more supportive policies and technology innovations.

Source: Xinhua